Bob McCarty Writes

While many Americans will park in front of their televisions to watch football on Super Bowl Sunday, others will tune in just to see the commercials.  Unknown to most Americans, one commercial will be seen only by members of the U.S. military deployed overseas.  Sadly, it’s a spot that probably needs to be shown to [...]

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Nearly one year after he was fired from his job as head football coach at Texas Tech University, Mike Leach is suing ESPN and Dallas-based Spaeth Communications for slander and libel, according to an Associated Press report.  Now, it appears the predictions I made Dec. 31 are coming true. In my first post about Leach’s [...]

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“Live from a remote cave in Afghanistan, this is Osama Bin Laden reporting.” Upon hearing an ABC News reporter using that name to sign off, the average American would probably receive anything the reporter said with a healthy dose of skepticism.  Why?  Because most Americans recognize the name of the Al-Qaeda leader and would not [...]

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Rumors are spreading fast and furiously among supporters of recently-fired Texas Tech University football coach Mike Leach.  But are they true?  I investigate. Perhaps the most-volatile rumor floating about is that Leach was ousted in a fashion similar to the one that cost John Kerry the presidency in 2004. Albeit in a much-abbreviated fashion, they [...]

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First, a BBC News headline reported, Hackers target leading climate research unit. Ten days later, a new headline from the stodgy-and-liberal media outlet reads, Inquiry into stolen climate e-mails. What’s wrong with those headlines?  They focus on something far less important than the fact that the e-mails exchanged between researchers at the UK’s East Anglia [...]

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Yes, this is a crass commercial plug for my friend, Bennie Wheels, whose band will be performing a Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute concert tomorrow night at the Uptown Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas. Bennie’s band, WALKIN’ THE LINE, is regarded as the nation’s best and most-entertaining representation of Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash and The [...]

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According to news reports like this one, as many as 60,000 people have canceled their AARP memberships since a Dallas-area town hall meeting on health care reform Aug. 6 went terribly wrong. If the video below, from a town hall forum held yesterday in Brevard County, Fla., is any indication, things aren’t getting much better [...]

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